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by Lee Higgins, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News

by Lee Higgins, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A teenager is suing a summer sports camp in New York owned by the family of former NFL quarterback Jay Fiedler, alleging that a popular and charismatic counselor sneaked into his bed while he was sleeping and sexually assaulted him in a cabin in 2006.

The 18-year-old, listed as "John Doe" in the lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Westchester County, claims counselor Willie Barron, who also works as a teacher's aide at a Queens, N.Y., school, performed oral sex on him at the sleep-away camp when he was 11.

Fiedler, a former starter for the Miami Dolphins who recently became a full-time director at the camp, is listed as a defendant, along with his brother Scott and their parents, Ken and Donna, accused of being negligent in supervising Barron. The teen is suing Barron for the alleged assault, which the teen said in court papers he reported to state police.

Asked about the case, state police Senior Investigator Jan Golding confirmed that there is an ongoing investigation at Brookwood Camps, but declined to release details.

The teen told a therapist about the assault at the coed camp in Glen Spey roughly five years after it happened, said his lawyer Debra Cohen.

"Now that he has finally come forward to his parents and been under the care of excellent therapists, he's doing much better," Cohen said. "It was a very difficult decision for him to come forward, but he's a very brave young man. He feels a responsibility for preventing this from happening to others."

The lawsuit filed last month seeks an unspecified amount of money.

Ken Fiedler, who bought the camp in 1986, declined comment and would not say whether Barron is still employed. A man who answered the telephone at the camp's office in Oceanside also declined comment. Barron could not be reached.

Barron, of Queens, has been suspended without pay since September from his roughly $30,000 a year post at P.S. Q224 in Queens, a pre-K-through-8 school, where he has worked more than 12 years, New York City Department of Education spokesman David Pena said. He was suspended because of the state investigation into child sexual abuse allegations, Pena said.

The teen, now a first-year college student, hopes the lawsuit "will help bring out more information as to Mr. Barron's activities that might actually help the criminal investigation," Cohen said.

"Apparently he (Barron) had extensive contact with campers in the offseason," said Cohen. "He would vacation with campers sometimes without parental supervision."

According to the lawsuit, the boy was reluctant to return to camp in the summer of 2006, but Barron called him and told him he could sleep in his cabin. Barron, who was the victim's head counselor and slept in the same cabin as the boy and 14 other campers, engaged in other inappropriate contact with campers, the lawsuit says, including "tweaking nipples, 'bear hugging,' tickling and rubbing up against boys." He also allegedly asked the boy to show him his penis.

The lawsuit claims the Fiedlers and other directors failed to adequately screen and supervise their counselors and other employees to prevent "sexual assaults and other unwelcome behaviors."